What if you have multiple executable files that you want to distribute using a single executable file? Traditionally you will need to create a .bat file but that will mean you know how to program a .bat file and you know your way to the intricacies of manually packing executable files. There is a free program called Wrapper that will help you complete that task of wrapping executables in no time. With it’s straightforward interface, ...

Have you ever had to try and find a file quickly in a very large directory structure, like a network drive? Working in IT, this happens to be all the time. I’m sitting on my own computer or someone else’s computer and I suddenly need to file one file on the network server. Too bad the network drive has thousands of folders and thousands of files, making it extremely difficult to find the file manually. ...

Earlier I wrote an article on Pediaphon, a free software that you can use to convert Wikipedia articles into MP3s. Though it has it’s problems, it’s a decent for anyone who really doesn’t have the time to read an article. However, Pediaphon only works for Wikipedia articles, which kind of limits it’s use. If you are looking for a free tool to convert any text to MP3 audio, such as Word documents, RSS feeds, text ...

Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox allows you to have an IM like interface in your blog or any website. Visitors of your site can chat with you real time whenever you are online. Since it becomes a part of your blog it doesn’t require your visitors to install any application. This is very similar to the Google Talk ChatBack Badge from Google that you can use to chat with visitors to your website. If I am online ...

Previously, I wrote about a web service called LockBin, which was a free way to send encrypted email messages for free. However, the service has been having issues and doesn’t seem to work anymore for some reason. LockBin basically worked by encrypting the text message using some kind of hash function like MD5 or SHA1. If you really want to send an encrypted email, why not just encrypt the text yourself! You can setup Outlook ...

For serious color identification, it is important that we understand the RGB (red, green and blue) color signature. The idea of using RGB values to identify colors is taken from the color theory that colors are a combination of the three primary colors (red, green, and blue). RGB is usually denoted using a hexadecimal triplet. A pure Blue for example is denoted as #0000FF where the first two 0’s designated red; the next two 0’s ...

I’ve written earlier about how to create strong passwords in order to avoid breaking a password using brute force. I’ve also written about free online password generators that help you create complex and strong passwords. So now that you have a password, do you really know if is it strong? Is there a way to check and see how strong your password really is? How would it fare against a brute force attack? How long ...

If you have been on a situation wherein you need to compare two large text files or folders then this tutorial is for you. In this example, given two almost identical text files, I will show you how to determine the lines that have a mismatch. In a manual brute force scenario, this is painstakingly difficult to do especially for large text files. The free tool is called WinMerge and you can get it from ...

Losing data because you accidentally deleted a folder or files has to be the worst way to lose your files. If you’ve ever deleted photos or important documents by accident, like I have, you probably have cursed yourself for days. Luckily, when you delete a file in Windows, it doesn’t actually over write the data on the hard disk immediately, it simply erases the reference to that data as if it never existed. This is ...

Do you have a company blog or webpage about your product or service and you want to start getting feedback from your customers/users/readers? I was very excited when Dell started their IdeaStorm website meant to get direct customer feedback from customers. That’s one of the main reasons they released a new line of consumer Linux PCs and Linux servers. So if you are looking a way to get feedback on your products, services, or even ...

If you are not aware, Windows 7 is the next version of the Windows operating system coming from Microsoft in 2009. It will be way better than Windows Vista and has a lot of cool features that people are actually looking forward too. One of the new features is the new powerful Windows Calculator. So what is the big deal about the calculator in Windows 7? Well, like the Vista calculator, it can convert units, ...

PDF is a great portable format. With a free software from www.primopdf.com called PrimoPDF, the task of converting any file to PDF format has never been easier. The installer from the download section is about 10.8MB as of this writing. After you installed it you can see it as one of the existing printers available on your list of printers: This means any document, text, file or picture is printable to PrimoPDF. It will not ...

If you use Twitter a lot, you also probably use a URL shortening service like TinyURL quite a bit also. Since Twitter only allows you to send 140 characters in a single message, TinyURL converts really long URLs into short ones. This is quite a handy service not only for Twitter, but also for Instant Messaging programs and even sending links via email. Anyway, I just prefer clean and short URLs to long and ugly ...

Trying to give an image rounded corners in Photoshop or by using CSS was one of the hardest things for me to do when I used to have my own web design business. I actually hated trying to create those curved corners because they never came out exactly right! And even if they did, the background color would change and I would have to edit the images over and over. I was always hoping someone ...

Looking for a free and easy way to capture an image from a PDF file and save it as a JPEG, PNG, or TIFF file? Well, you can always try to use a screen capture program or even the Print Screen key in Windows to care a screenshot, but this is a very tedious process if you want to save many pictures from a PDF file or from multiple PDF files. PDF Extract is a ...

Windows Live Writer is an excellent blogging tool with a lot of possible choices of extensions to enhance your blogs. With a plug-in to enhance your ordinary pictures, you can achieve Polaroid-style pictures with tilts and captions. This plugin gives pictures a more dramatic or nostalgic effect. See some of the examples I got using this plugin: If you don’t have Windows Live Writer yet you will need to get it from Windows Live website. ...

Gmail has been releasing a slew of new features lately via their new Gmail labs section. If you use Gmail a lot, you may want to check out some of the beta features that you can only try by manually activating them. If you use other Google features, check out my previous post on Google Calendar tips and tricks and Google Picasa tips. One reason why I use Gmail as my main web email service ...

Don’t be alarmed, ReadyBoost is not another software that you will need to download and install. The only requirement is that you have a Windows Vista installed in your PC and a USB 2.0 flash disk with a lot of free space (1G minimum). with a lot of free space we mean the bigger the better. With ReadyBoost technology, Vista is able to use the available free space on the flash disk as a caching ...

I logged into LinkedIn today, the largest professional oriented social network, and was delighted to find out that you can add applications to enhance your public profile, collaborate and share with colleagues, and even monitor and track company news. Applications for LinkedIn are just like applications that you can add and use in your Facebook profile. If you have a LinkedIn account, log into your account and visit the application directory here. There are not ...

Google’s plan to dominate the world by indexing all information has taken a big leap. Google recently has indexed political videos. With this database of indexed videos you can now search for specific parts of the video where your search words are mentioned. It makes sense that Google started with political videos since they know that political videos receive a lot of attention. With more users testing the tool, Google can fast track the development ...